This volume, from the Policy Studies Organization, examines the role of presidential leadership in the development and implementation of civil rights policy in

The President is the key actor in civil rights policy--its advance, reversal, or neglect. This book documents the critical role presidents have played in settin

The most thorough, systematic, and historical examination of the interrelations of the president and other participants in civil rights policymaking, The Presid

Given his background, President Truman was an unlikely champion of civil rights. Where he grew up--the border state of Missouri--segregation was accepted and la